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...argue that a student who has a burning desire to paint to sculpt and is willing to make sacrifices to do so should not be in a liberal arts college in the first place. That argument ignores those people who have a deep interest in art without being totally committed to it as a career. Few Harvard artists are totally committed They work hard and enjoy their work, but they have not decided to devote their lives to a particular art from...
...Bulges. Actually Sy is not as expensive as the jokes about him suggest. He charges only about $350 for custom suits. The vicuna suits crowd $450. If he had his druthers, he would sculpt all his fabled clients into what he calls the Sy Devore All-American Look. Jackets, cut a good inch and a half shorter than the average, have square shoulders and single buttons. There is no handkerchief pocket-Sy hates bulges. Trousers have frontier pockets (like dungarees), no hip pockets, no cuffs, no belt (or a half belt in cloth), and are three inches trimmer than...
Many actors sculpt their real names. Ethel Zimmerman clipped off the zim. Vivien Hartley lost her hart. James Baumgarner dropped the baum. Grace Stanfield is now Gracie Fields. Uncle Miltie was once Milton Berlinger. One letter made the difference for Dorothy Lambour. First names have a habit of turning into surnames. Benny Kubelsky changed his name to Jack Benny, Muni Weisenfreund to Paul Muni, Preston Meservey to Robert Preston...
...deep needs of people that they don't know they have." Land did not conceive his camera purely as a hot commercial product, felt that a simple, one-step camera could be "a new medium of expression" for people with artistic leanings who do not draw, sculpt or paint...
Kricke's method is to sculpt with lines, which are his tubes. As he composes them, the tubes do not seem to outline shapes; they remain lines, as in handwriting or neon. "Never, never," Kricke vows, "will I use lines as a limiting element!" The eye follows Kricke's lines as if they were intertwining jets of water, now fast, now slow, and changing with each new viewpoint, or starting place. The effect on the viewer can be as exhilarating as that of negotiating a parkway cloverleaf at maximum speed, or of flashing through a night-blazing city...